Writing Analysis Strategy: Part II: Holistic Analysis
Genre Top 10 List
Genre Diary Entry
Genre Magazine Cover
Quickly look over the entire project. In each box write the genre of each piece and the type of information it appears the writer has chosen to include. Do you think each genre is appropriate for the audience and purpose? Please explain for each.
Topic: Motorsport Safety
Purpose: Inform audience about Motorsport safety
Audience: Someone interested in racing
Top 10 List
Diary Entry
Magazine Cover
Purpose: Inform audience about Motorsport safety
Audience: Someone interested in racing
Academic Journal
Trading Cards
Magazine Article
Interview
Obituaries
Does the project have unity? Yes
Can you see how the writer created cohesion among the pieces? If so, how? Made it look like one big magazine full of facts/statistics/and more information
If you cannot detect how this was done immediately, how do you think cohesion might be created in a topic like this?
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©2006 by Melinda Putz from A Teacher’s Guide to the Multigenre Research Project. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann. HANDOUT 2E